Actor Lily Gladstone opened up about not winning the Academy Awards this year once she went back home to the Blackfeet Nation following her busy awards season with Killers of the Flower Moon, directed by Martin Scorsese.

She was nominated for the Oscars this year alongside Emma Stone for her performance in Poor Things but it was Stone who grabbed the award.

"It was funny, the organizers of the event called me beforehand and they said that they’d got a bunch of little cardboard cut-outs of gold-man statues that looked like an Oscar, to give to the kids,” Gladstone recently told Empire magazine. “They asked if that was okay, or if it was gonna hurt my feelings. I said: 'No, absolutely not.'"

Lily Gladstone made history as the first Native American woman ever to be nominated in the category. She played the role of Mollie Kyle, an Indigenous Osage woman who is married to Leonardo DiCaprio’s character Ernest.

"Nobody was upset that it didn’t happen," she said about her Oscars loss.

"When the Golden Globe happened, a lot of people who are very far away from the industry just kind of thought it was the Oscars. It’s about the fact that the film has been awarded and it’s historic, and it’s still just a really meaningful moment. So it’s irrelevant whether or not I walked home with that statue in hand,” the actor said, while asserting that regardless of “regardless of how things turned out,” she will concentrate on her upcoming projects.

She has the indie film Fancy Dance on Apple TV+, The Memory Police, which is an adaptation of Yoko Ogawa’s 1994 sci-fi novel. She also has Andrew Ahn's remake of The Wedding Banquet where she will be starring opposite Bowen Yang.